Opera Desktop Widgets can now run as independent applications!
Opera Software has announced Opera Widgets for desktop which can now run independently.
Users would still be required to have Opera Browser installed on their machines. But these widgets can run without running the browser itself.
In fact, Widgets can now function as fully featured [...]

Adobe collaborating with Gigya on Widgets
Adobe Flash powers a lot of things on the web including the world’s most popular video sharing service YouTube.
It is also the technology powering most widgets we see on the web especially blogs.
The company however has little to do with these little applications.
This is now going to [...]

Facebook launches more widgets
Web’s most popular social networking service Facebook has launched some more widgets.
All of their widgets are now available through a dedicated section on their website.
The service now has widgets targeted at both casual users and brands:
Profile Badge
Photo Badge
Fan Box
Live Stream Box
Page Badge
The company is working hard to enable you [...]

Facebook Connect now has a comment widget for publishers
Social networking service Facebook has made available a new widget for the users of their Facebook Connect service.
Web publishers can now host a widget on their websites which can be used by visitors to leave comments on the web pages.
This feature enables Facebook users to comment on [...]

Google updates iGoogle with more features
Google has now updated their personalized homepage service iGoogle.
iGoogle users can now have a canvas view of the gadgets they have installed on their personal home pages.
This new feature is currently applicable to 16 new or updated widgets on iGoogle.
The canvas view would enable the providers of these widgets to [...]

Clearspring Technologies acquires AddThis
Clearspring Technologies has announced their decision to acquire AddThis.
Clearspring excels in providing web enabled widgets while AddThis enables social sharing of links.
Market analysts claim that AddThis is more popular than Del.icio.us and ShareThis.com. Del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo.
The two companies did not reveal the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.
Clearspring Chief Executive [...]

ShareThis to acquire madKast
Widget Company ShareThis has announced that they are now acquiring madKast.
madKast is also a developer of widgets and the deal would enable the two companies to enhance their offerings.
The deal would take some days to complete. The two companies have revealed little financial information about the acquisition.
Checkout: ShareThis | madKast

Twingly to move out of Beta on June 12
The developers behind the Twingly project have announced that they are launching the service on June 12.
Twingly is a new blog search engine which promises to deliver spam free results to web users.
Twingly has been in beta testing since some time now and they are now ready [...]

Yahoo Buzz launches widgets and RSS
Yahoo’s recently launched Digg challenger Yahoo Buzz has added some new features.
They are now offering widgets and the much needed RSS feeds to support their service.
The service is currently in beta and offers content from a limited number of web sites.
Users are now allowed to generate widgets as per their [...]

Google Gadgets now compatible with Apple Dashboard
Search engine giant Google has announced that they are now making their Google Gadgets available to Mac users.
The company said that their Gadgets mini applications are now compatible with Apple Dashboard.
Google added in a statement: “For users, this means they can install hundreds of Google Gadgets [...]